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ASPI: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border have increased from 11 to 27 since the military coup in 2021, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people (Rebecca Ratcliffe/The Guardian)

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Quantum computing startup Infleqtion agrees to merge with Michael Klein-led SPAC Churchill Capital, giving it a $1.8B pre-money valuation and $540M+ in funding (Bloomberg)

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Cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope plans to sell 47.8M shares at $15 to $17 each in its Nasdaq IPO, valuing it at up to $6.5B and raising up to $813M (Reuters)

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Databricks raised $1B from Thrive, a16z, and others at a $100B valuation and is on track to generate $4B in revenue in its FY ending in January 2026, up 50% YoY (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is coming — Here is everything you need to know

Polygon - All

The Southern takeover of American culture

Vox - All

A deep dive into Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (SemiAnalysis)

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Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a public equity offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin for a Solana asset treasury strategy (Adam James/The Block)

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SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film 

The Verge - All Posts

Trump’s sinister America rebrand

Vox - All

Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi startup Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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The influencer in this Vodafone ad isn’t real

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Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China, as part of a "site license" idea (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Your guide to identifying the 7 most dangerous mosquitoes in the US

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Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement pulls up a drawbridge on its startup rivals that cannot afford such fines, setting a floor price on training infringement (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

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Ford introduces F-150 Lightning STX to replace XLT trim

The Verge - All Posts

Mosquitos at the US southern border reveal a frightening reality about climate change

Vox - All

Google updates a Help Center article to clarify Gemini 2.5 Pro's usage limits: five prompts per day for free users, 100 prompts for AI Pro, and 500 for AI Ultra (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

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Here Are Borderlands 4's PC Specs And System Requirements

Game Informer